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What are the goals of treatment?
The goals of treatment during an acute psychotic episode are usually:- to ensure the safety of the individual and others, and to decrease the risk to the individual and to those around them;
- to decrease psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions and thinking problems as a matter of urgency;
- to use appropriate medications and to minimize their side-effects;
- to engage the family as well as the patient in treatment, education and support; and
- to develop a management plan to promote recovery from the acute episode.
- continuing to keep the individual, and those around, safe;
- reducing the occurrence of problems that can go hand-in-hand with a psychosis, such as depression or anxiety, or alcohol and other drug use;
- preventing relapse;
- enhancing the individual and his/her family's quality of life; and
- returning the individual to usual life including daily routines (rehabilitation).
